McDonnell election victory certified (Virginia AG)

Roanoke Times ^ | 11/28/05 | Michael Sluss

[ArrogantBustard]

they'll have to find another heavily Dim county

No problem ... It's called Richmond, the Land of the Voting Dead.

[MikefromOhio]

hehe yep :)

I wonder about the character of Chef now. Since Issac Hayes is a big Scientologist, I wonder if he will want to stay on. I hope so, Chef is a classic.

[Kenny Bunk]

Time for all those boxes of "misplaced ballots" to start showing up. ,,,,

Put this together with

McDonnell, who saw his lead diminish substantially during a locality-by-locality canvassing process...

..... and you have ythe story of the Republican Party in every "close" election.

Yet the MSM still sells the story of Bush stealing the elction ... even after the WA theft.

[BohDaThone]

I think the doofuses saw that Mcconnell got less than 50.01% of the 2-party vote, and forgot to double the amount over 50% to get the "margin"

[Zeppelin]

I didnt know Isaac Hayes is a Scientologist. Should make things interesting, to say the least.

[Zeppelin]

good call. I bet thats exactly what they did.

[MikefromOhio]

yep

[cicero's_son]

You don't expect newspaper reporters to be capable of simple math, do you?

I mean, really! We're talking about reporters, here.

[reformedliberal]

Lt. Governor went to Republican? But all I heard from the legacy media was how this blue state stayed blue meaning Republicans are done for nationwide!

And a Republican is certified to have won Attorney General? TWO Republicans took administration positions in blue state VA? Why is this the first time I have heard this news? Maybe I'll postpone that bout of clinical depression the media hopes is in store for all Republicans.

[StayAt HomeMother]

STATEMENT OF FORMER DEMOCRAT ATTORNEY GENERAL AND FORMER STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS MEMBER-Regarding the Attorney General Election-

November 22, 2005

RICHMOND Former Democrat Attorney General Stephen Rosenthal and former State Board of Elections member and Republican Delegate John H. ("Jack") Rust issued the following statement today regarding the Attorney General election:

"We are troubled by the lack of transparency in a vote certification process that consistently has shifted vote totals in the attorney general election."

"Election day is a public event open to observers. Local electoral boards were required by law to conduct canvasses at public meetings attended by citizens, the press, and observers from both political parties. After the local canvasses concluded, however, the State Board of Elections' certification process has gone behind closed doors with little or no explanation to the public. In what should be an open and readily apparent vote certification process, the State Board appears to have ignored its role of managing the certification process and has allowed local electoral boards free reign to do so without public involvement."

"After the initial election night count, the margin of victory was roughly 3,000 votes. In the ensuing time, that margin has decreased by about 90% to less than 350 votes. The public and both political parties have been provided little explanation by neither the State Board nor the local election boards for such a significant shift in vote tallies."

"We agree wholeheartedly with respected political scientist Larry Sabato as quoted in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "'It's amazing, that's all you can say,' he said. 'The net changes are all going in one direction, toward the Democrat, which is unusual but possible.'"

"The statistical unlikelihood of such an odd occurrence raises concerns. More worrisome is the undisclosed process, not provided for in the Code of Virginia, by which some of these changes have been discovered. For example, the State Board of Elections notified both campaigns that 56 additional paper ballots had yet to be counted in Chesapeake. This number subsequently has changed multiple times. Apparently, additional ballots were counted last Friday. Then, after the counting was supposedly complete, the tally changed again on Monday with no explanation other than that an 'error' had been made. Last Thursday, the State Board of Elections reduced the vote total for Bob McDonnell by 10 votes in Fauquier County notwithstanding the fact that the Fauquier County electoral board had certified the higher number and without providing any explanation to the public."

"It appears that the electoral boards in Chesapeake, Fauquier and elsewhere have unilaterally decided to re-open sealed envelopes or locked machines or to change vote totals without public participation and without being directed to do so by the three-member State Board of Elections or a court. Such renegade vote 'counting' falls outside the powers these boards hold under the law of Virginia and raises serious questions about the integrity of the process by which the vote total has changed since Election Day."

"We call upon the State Board of Elections to manage and control a certification process that is fair and transparent to the public, press and both political parties."

[Hardastarboard]

Dude - you expected a JOURNALIST to be able to do math?

[Kenny Bunk]

"It appears that the electoral boards in Chesapeake, Such renegade vote 'counting' falls outside the powers these boards hold under the law of Virginia and raises serious questions about the integrity of the process by which the vote total has changed since Election Day."

Mother, I have personally seen this happen now in more than 1 state in which I was resident. Why, why, why, do the Republicans NEVER mention this publicly? 5 states were stolen for Kerry, at least. Imagine the mandate Bush would have had with an honest election.

[CFC__VRWC]

Yet the MSM still sells the story of Bush stealing the elction ... even after the WA theft.

That's because the SCOTUS stepped in and put an end to the Dim game plan - keep doing recounts until you get one that puts the democrat ahead, and then immediately stop and declare the Dim the winner and announce that it's time to "move on." If it hadn't been for the Supreme Court, we'd have had President Gore "winning" Florida in early January 2000 after about the sixth or seventh recount.

Ergo, to the MSM that means the GOP "stole" the election. Makes sense, doesn't it?

[CFC__VRWC]

"We agree wholeheartedly with respected political scientist Larry Sabato as quoted in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "'It's amazing, that's all you can say,' he said. 'The net changes are all going in one direction, toward the Democrat, which is unusual but possible.'"

This in a nutshell explains why the Dims get away with openly stealing elections. The Republican delegate releases this statement, knowing that this is the strongest action the GOP will take. He gets a token Dim to co-author it and give the democrat party a chance to gain some political cover by going on record "denouncing" the process, all the while knowing that no further action will be taken. And to top it off, they quote "respected political scientist" Larry Sabato, who whored himself out to the Kerry campaign last year, to basically say that while the shrinking vote gap is kind of strange, it doesn't mean that any funny business is going on.

I hate to say it, but this one is all over. The only question remaining is how large a final margin of victory the democrat party will manufacture for their man.

[dvwjr]

Uh, no. The final Presidental/Vice-Presidential voting took place December 18th, 2000. The counting of those votes took place January 6th, 2001.

There was no more time for any more Floriday popular vote re-counts as of mid-night December 12th, 2000. That time-limit expired just two hours and six minutes after the US Supreme Court issued its 7-2 decision against Gore, with the 5-4 decision being against any more extensions of the Florida re-count give the above Federal time-limit.


dvwjr

[CFC__VRWC]

There was no more time for any more Floriday popular vote re-counts as of mid-night December 12th, 2000.

That's my point - if the SCOTUS hadn't stepped in and taken the case and ruled in it as it did, the Florida Supreme Court would have been more than happy to let Al Gore go on cherry-picking precincts in South Florida until the Dim hacks down there could manufacture enough votes to give Gore the "win." They had already let one state-mandated deadline slide, what was another mandated deadline? It was a serious enough threat to where the Florida Legislature was making contingency plans to award the state's electoral votes to Bush, in accordance with the certified election results.

Of course, that interfered with the democrats' plans, to recount again and again until they came up with a tally showing Gore ahead, and then immediately declare victory. So they have claimed ever since that Bush stole Florida with the SCOTUS's help. The press of course agrees completely.

[dvwjr]

Agreed, but the second dead-line was a Federal one imposed by the Congress in 1877. There is no way that the FEDERAL mid-night of December 12th, 2000 dead-line could be changed by the Florida Supreme Court, so the game was over at that point. The four minority members of the US Supreme Court thought that the 1877 dead-line decision of Congress could be 'extended' from mid-night December 12th to maybe December 17th so that the Florida Supreme Court could continue to play havoc with the Federal Presidential election. The Congress of its day was pretty clear that the week before the Electors vote is a HARD dead-line, otherwise the Congress may discount any slate of Electors named after the 'safe harbor' dead-line...

As you said, the Florida Legislature would have stepped into the mess on December 13th and named the Bush and Cheney slate of Electors ending the problem permanently.

The Florida Supreme Court had no business interfering with the Federal powers granted exclusively to the Florida State Legislature ALONE...


dvwjr

[mrsmith]

"On Election night Creigh trailed his Republican opponent by 3,400 but that gap has narrowed to 322 votes since Election Day.
In one locality there was a 1,000 vote swing in Creigh's favor because it was discovered that the candidates' totals had been transposed. Another area found 20 uncounted paper ballots just last week. "